ALL-NEGRO COMICS #1
CGC FA/GD: 1.5
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SOLD ON: Monday, 03/11/2019 1:52 PM
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PUBLISHER: All-Negro Comics
COMMENTS: brttl pgs; Sl(A) mod amt ct cvr, tp along spn of every wrap
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
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brttl pgs; Sl(A) mod amt ct cvr, tp along spn of every wrap
George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
All-Negro Comics #1 is an extraordinary document as both part of comics history and African American history, enshrined as the first title created and published by black artists for a black audience. Brought together by pioneering journalist Orrin C. Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was presented as an alternative to the all-white (and often racist) comics otherwise populating the newsstands. Evans had a vision of providing young black readers with their own role models and heroes as created in their own community.
Those characters would include Lion Man as the first black superhero (seen on the upper-left corner of the book's cover.) As the alter-ego of a scientist overseeing a uranium deposit on the African Gold Coast, Lion Man was introduced to readers as a character meant to provide “a finer appreciation of their African heritage." The cover also features private detective Ace Harlem in pursuit of Lion Man's playful sidekick Bubba. Evans' ambitious project would get national news coverage — with TIME magazine even chiding Evans for "jive-talking" stereotypes in the Ace Harlem story. Sadly, this would remain the only issue of this pioneering comic.
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George Evans Jr. art; hanging panels
All-Negro Comics #1 is an extraordinary document as both part of comics history and African American history, enshrined as the first title created and published by black artists for a black audience. Brought together by pioneering journalist Orrin C. Evans in 1947, All-Negro #1 was presented as an alternative to the all-white (and often racist) comics otherwise populating the newsstands. Evans had a vision of providing young black readers with their own role models and heroes as created in their own community.
Those characters would include Lion Man as the first black superhero (seen on the upper-left corner of the book's cover.) As the alter-ego of a scientist overseeing a uranium deposit on the African Gold Coast, Lion Man was introduced to readers as a character meant to provide “a finer appreciation of their African heritage." The cover also features private detective Ace Harlem in pursuit of Lion Man's playful sidekick Bubba. Evans' ambitious project would get national news coverage — with TIME magazine even chiding Evans for "jive-talking" stereotypes in the Ace Harlem story. Sadly, this would remain the only issue of this pioneering comic.
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